· Private foundation
John R Wright and Eloise Mountain Wright Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k24 grants · $520k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALDEA | $80,000 |
| CASA JUAN DIEGO | $60,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF GREATER HOUSTON | $50,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF TENNESSEE | $40,000 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $30,000 |
| REHABILITATION SERVICES VOLUNTEER PROJECT | $30,000 |
| KIDS' MEALS INC | $30,000 |
| HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER | $25,000 |
| BLINKNOW FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD HOUSTON | $25,000 |
| HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| VIETNAM BUDDHIST CENTER | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $635k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
55 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AAALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $390k · revenue +67%
- RSREHABILITATION SERVICES VOLUNTEER PROJECT9× · 2017–2025 · $380k · revenue +5% · 73% of their budget
- CJCASA JUAN DIEGO9× · 2017–2025 · $376k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- ISIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $100k
- DWDallas Willard Ministriesgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $42k · revenue +28%
DRAKE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +11%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
World hunger relief institute equips people to alleviate hunger through education, research, and sustainable agriculture.
Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Blinknow Foundation a Nj Nonprofit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 73 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Luvability Ministries ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds REHABILITATION SERVICES VOLUNTEER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CASA JUAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
- Who funds TENTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds CORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds The Montrose Center ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds Special Pals Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Mercy Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Dallas Willard Ministries ↗
- Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WEST LIBERTY COMM SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Rydell Family Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization John R Wright and Eloise Mountain Wright Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.